It sounds like you're actually defending the labour practices of China over the last few decades. If so, I can't argue with you. EDIT: In addition, the improve

It sounds like you're actually defending the labour practices of China over the last few decades. If so, I can't argue with you. EDIT: In addition, the improvement of China's living standards should never be used as an example of capitalist success. China was at a cultural and economic low due to the effects of the Chinese "Cultural Revolution". Anything would have seen an improvement in living standards across a lot of China. The point about the Koch brothers is that a project with staggering environmental implications is being controlled by a very small number of parties, when the actual people living in that same environment are going to receive little or no compensation for the destruction of said environment.